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    Weird number on my cell phone

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    by itgirli ·

    Due to popular request, I am moving this issue from Q&A to the discussions.

    The other day I looked at my cell phone and it said I had a missed call. When I displayed the number, it showed up as “1 234 567 890”. There was no voicemail left on my phone.

    Does anyone have any idea why this may have happened?

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    • #3087667

      Yep

      by ben “iron” damper ·

      In reply to Weird number on my cell phone

      Telemarketer or bill collector!
      Yep I have many of those numbers on my caller ID at home.
      Well of course all from telemarketers not bill collectors in my case -)

      • #3087655

        not that way in Michigan

        by jdclyde ·

        In reply to Yep

        all collectors/Helemarketers always come up as “not available” or “out of area”.

        Yes, after the ex-wife moved out and stopped paying her bills, I get LOTS of collectors calling.

        After my house is sold and I move, my next number will be unlisted!

        No idea about your number Girli, except for I heard on the radio they can now SPOOF caller ID.

        • #3087572

          Thanks!

          by itgirli ·

          In reply to not that way in Michigan

          Thank you for your thoughtful insight. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

        • #3090387

          Newest fad

          by cgoeckel ·

          In reply to not that way in Michigan

          Your right JD. I read that somewhere actually. You can now buy a piece of hardware that when you use it asks you for what number you want to appear to be calling from.

          So now there is telephone “spoofing”. Guess folks found a way to get around call blocker.

          It isn’t that expensive either. It’s going to make me not want to answer my phone.

        • #3090370

          The BAD thing is

          by jdclyde ·

          In reply to Newest fad

          that it is PERFECTLY legal.

          You can give harrassing calls and make it look like someone else is the one doing it.

          That is the case I heard, where the calls appeared to be coming from a senators office.

        • #3090353

          Reply To: Weird number on my cell phone

          by tryten ·

          In reply to Newest fad

          I have received several of these numbers. Its gotten to the point of where I no longer say hello when I see a number I dont recognize, I scream vulgar phrases at them. Hey if they really need to speak to me then they will call back at a number I know.

        • #3089484

          Hello real quick

          by dr dij ·

          In reply to Reply To: Weird number on my cell phone

          then hang up quick if no one answers immediately. you can avoid great majority of spallers (spam-callers?) this way.

          they use predictive dialers that dial more numbers than they can answer because they know not all phoens will answer with a person or at all.

          there is a delay of a few seconds between the dialer hardware recognizing that a person asnwered and the call being xferred to an operator.

        • #3089489

          I’m told you can block

          by dr dij ·

          In reply to not that way in Michigan

          any phone# that doesn’t show claler ID
          One member of one of my clubs has this on her home phone. You need to enable it for that call befroe calling her

        • #3089474

          only problem

          by jdclyde ·

          In reply to I’m told you can block

          for my home phone, I don’t pay extra NOW to see who I will be talking too before I talk to them.

          cut my phone bill in half by getting all the extra crap off it.

          May look into an internet phone soon.

        • #3089273

          Another problem this is bringing up is

          by old guy ·

          In reply to I’m told you can block

          as I understand according to the articles listed in here they are able to have a different phone show up in your caller ID. In other words if they were to know your bank’s name, or some other phone number to a legit business that you would recognize they could have that number show up on your caller ID. I think it would open more people to being caught in a scam.

    • #3087659

      If you were in the UK I’d say numerous reasons

      by gadgetgirl ·

      In reply to Weird number on my cell phone

      Have you changed provider lately?

      Have you changed your subscription in anyway? (i.e. added on overseas calling, bolt ons etc)

      Is this your original sim card?

      Does your phone actually tell you (in text, on the screen) if a caller is withholding their number from you?

      Of course, it could have been a marketing call, which would be more than likely over here. I assume you can’t call that number back?

      If you’re worried about it, see if you can find your equivalent of our Telephone Preference List, and add your mobile number to ensure that you don’t get marketing calls at the very least.

      Had you been over here, Girli, there is a guy downstairs who would have been in a certain database and able to tell you straight away…..it’s his job!

      GG

      • #3087625

        I had another GG

        by stargazerr ·

        In reply to If you were in the UK I’d say numerous reasons

        And the answer to all the above questions is no.

        One of my friends called me from India and my mobile showed a UK cell number … I am perplexed. I thought this sort of thing only happened in India 😀

        ]:)

    • #3087644

      Read about it just yesterday

      by mickster269 ·

      In reply to Weird number on my cell phone

      http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11624504/

      Apparently, anyone can spoof a Phone # now.

      • #3087632

        Thanks!

        by itgirli ·

        In reply to Read about it just yesterday

        And all this time I thought it was aliens trying to find intelligent life!

        • #3087631

          aha!

          by gadgetgirl ·

          In reply to Thanks!

          so that’s why I didn’t get the call, then…..!!

          😀

          GG

        • #3087596

          It is the OTHER group of Aliens

          by jdclyde ·

          In reply to aha!

          that have the probes that are interested in you, my dear! :O

          They already promised me pictures! ]:)

        • #3087525

          Why is it always probes with you?

          by itgirli ·

          In reply to It is the OTHER group of Aliens

          Is there something you would like to let us in on?

        • #3090433

          probes

          by jdclyde ·

          In reply to Why is it always probes with you?

          no….

          deny deny deny…..

          It does always remind me, a comidian was talking about the Ford Probe, and made the comment that he always expected to see something sticking out of the seat! :O

          Yes, I watch WAY too much South park as well! At least I didn’t mention WHERE was being probed and it WAS on a woman! (sorry M_A_R_K, no sheep here!) 😀

        • #3087628

          Aliens

          by jellimonsta ·

          In reply to Thanks!

          Didn’t they give up that exercise in futility a few centuries ago? :p

      • #3087600

        HEY

        by jdclyde ·

        In reply to Read about it just yesterday

        [i]i said that first and YOU get the thanks . . . . . . 🙁

        B-)

        • #3087591

          Life is so unfair…

          by mickster269 ·

          In reply to HEY

          But *I* provided the link!

          And I’m much nicer than you.

          And *I* like girls.

        • #3087530

          Be nice

          by itgirli ·

          In reply to Life is so unfair…

          He likes girls too, that’s his problem.

        • #3090434

          If you look

          by jdclyde ·

          In reply to Life is so unfair…

          at my avitar, you will see what happened to the LAST women I “liked”! 😀

          link shmink! ;\

          much? Maybe a [b]little[/b] nicer, but not MUCH nicer! B-)

    • #3087531

      Here’s the answer

      by m_a_r_k ·

      In reply to Weird number on my cell phone

      This is one helluva coincidence that I saw an article about this in today’s newspaper:
      http://tinyurl.com/ksz77

      http://spoofcard.com/

      http://www.telespoof.com/

      • #3087528

        Oooops.. I’m late with my answer

        by m_a_r_k ·

        In reply to Here’s the answer

        I read the Mickster’s post after I posted mine… damn!

      • #3087526

        Thanks!

        by itgirli ·

        In reply to Here’s the answer

        Though I thought the ghost thing was pretty interesting.

        • #3087521

          It sure was

          by m_a_r_k ·

          In reply to Thanks!

          That happened six years ago. I don’t think this spoofing technology existed then. And it would be a sick joke to pull on someone.

        • #3090501

          How strange.

          by itgirli ·

          In reply to It sure was

          So he died and then a few months later his wife received a phone call from his old cell phone number? Could it have been that the number was still in her phone and was accidentally dialed by her and then the person who now had that phone number tried to call it back to see who it may have been?

        • #3090451

          It was only two weeks later

          by m_a_r_k ·

          In reply to How strange.

          She had the phone at her house so no one else would have been able to call from that phone. The number was still issued to him. Maybe she was messing around with his phone and accidentally called her own phone from HIS phone. I don’t recall many details. Of course, you gotta remember, she was probably still not thinking clearly since it had been only two weeks since he passed away. There HAS to be a logical explanation.

    • #3090350

      WIRED article on the topic

      by smorty71 ·

      In reply to Weird number on my cell phone

      WIRED just published an article today about spoofing caller id:

      http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70320-0.html

      • #3090347

        Interesting

        by itgirli ·

        In reply to WIRED article on the topic

        I always seem to be a day ahead of the news. Sort of like a seer.

        • #3090346

          Seer?

          by bfilmfan ·

          In reply to Interesting

          Should we start calling you the “Oracle of the Beltway?

        • #3089482

          Well let’s see….

          by itgirli ·

          In reply to Seer?

          I’m an Empress and a seer, let’s try to fuse them together. The Grand Seer Empress! The Empress Seer! I don’t know.

        • #3089272

          Empress Seer

          by old guy ·

          In reply to Well let’s see….

          hands down!

    • #3090327

      Thanks for the info

      by old guy ·

      In reply to Weird number on my cell phone

      from the links that you guys have provided. sMoRTy71, I was able to use the link you provided to forward to all the users at my office to let them know what is going on. Thanks!

    • #3090226

      SKYPE

      by jahoga ·

      In reply to Weird number on my cell phone

      SkypeOut defaults to 1234567890, much to my friend’s amusement the first time I called him.

    • #3089943

      Easier for the black helicopters to track you…

      by bschaettle ·

      In reply to Weird number on my cell phone

      Let me guess — you stopped wearing your tinfoil hat, didn’t you?

      I stll wear mine, even at work, and I certainly haven’t been bothered by the alien phone numbers on my cell…..

      Happy Friday! Now get back to work, people.
      🙂

    • #3089472

      Caller ID number spoofing

      by margsi2 ·

      In reply to Weird number on my cell phone

    • #2437944

      Stop unsolicited calls and texts with “Mobile Call Blocker”

      by mohamed hamdouni ·

      In reply to Weird number on my cell phone

      If your phone is an Android, then you have [u][b]FREE[/u][/b] apps that can do the job for you
      [b]”Mobile Call Blocker”[/b] (by [i][b]Avanquest Mobile Technologies[/i][/b]) for example will allow you to block unsolicited calls AND text messages and also manage blacklist and white-list profiles (easy to switch from a profile to another)
      Once the correspondent is blocked then he/she will be redirected to voice mail (or if it’s a text message it will just be deleted until you remove this number from blacklist)
      Once again, that’s free and you don’t have to pay for it

      you can find above app at: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avanquest.callblocker

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